Word Meanings - TETRAONID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used also adjectively.

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• TETRAONID
  A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is the type, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used also adjectively.
• TRIBE
  A number of species or genera having certain structural characteristics in common; as, a tribe of plants; a tribe of animals. Note: By many recent naturalists, tribe has been used for a group of animals or plants intermediate between order
• QUAIL
  pain, G. qual torment, OHG. quelan to suffer torment, Lith. gelti to 1. To die; to perish; hence, to wither; to fade. Spenser. 2. To become quelled; to become cast down; to sink under trial or apprehension of danger; to lose the spirit and power
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• PARTRIDGE
  F. perdrix, L. perdix, -icis, fr. Gr. 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus Perdix and several related genera of the family Perdicidæ, of the Old World. The partridge is noted as a game bird. Full many
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• ADJECTIVELY
  In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively.
• GROUSER
  A pointed timber attached to a boat and sliding vertically, to thrust into the ground as a means of anchorage.
• GENUS
  A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms.
• QUAILY
  The upland plover.
• GROUSE
  ) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidæ, and subfamily Tetraoninæ, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The
• CEPHALOTRIBE
  An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.
• DIATRIBE
  A prolonged or exhaustive discussion; especially, an acrimonious or invective harangue; a strain of abusive or railing language; a philippic. The ephemeral diatribe of a faction. John Morley.
• SEA QUAIL
  The turnstone.
• SQUAIL
  To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. Southey.
• SUBGENUS
  A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.
• SUBTRIBE
  A division of a tribe; a group of genera of a little lower rank than a tribe.
• SEA PARTRIDGE
  The gilthead , a fish of the British coasts.
• WOOD PARTRIDGE
  Any of several small partridges of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and neighboring regions belonging to the genera Caloperdix, Rollulus, and Melanoperdix. The Canada grouse.
• WATER PARTRIDGE
  The ruddy duck.